"Breaking News" Eddie statement at Official Site & Rolling Stone

[MCMLXXXIV]

Again Dave shows he's in his own league.
It's also good that Ed and Al don't talk to press. I hope Ed gots better.

I feel something good will come out of this mess.

Fuck Gaygar an Hot Sauce. They shouldn't attend the ceremony. It's Van Halen, not Other Half being inducted!

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by MAX
Being how I'm forever an optimist as a person, I hate eating crow and even more I hate siding with Kippy here but it's true.

I do wish EVH well but this timing is bullfuckingshit and he's been in and out of rehab as much as cocks have been in and out of any given porn star and she's (insert any given name) still a slut!!!

Seriously, it fucking hurts me cos I've been an optimistic fan for so many years. I don't know any other way?

All I know is Dave's the shit, a hero of mine and I wish him the best. I'm sick and fucking tired of EVH fucking everything up!!!

Would it have killed EVH to stay drunk for another week so this ceremony could've gone alright? Seriously, the guy's been in lala land for so many years, what fucking difference would a few more days make?

Selfish on my nehalf? Who cares?

Ed should've checked himself into rehab loooooooong before pulling on the fan's collective heartstrings. Absolutely ZERO sympathy here, except for Dave!!!

Ed's been to rehab many times already. He was a regular at the Betty Ford Clinic going back to 1986.

He's even tried to see a therapist in the 90s.

I agree -- the timing of this is really shitty.

But, it seems as if it was going to happen this way anyway. As soon as the band and the promoters realized that Ed was not well enough to tour -- the prospects of attending the Hall ceremony was in question as well.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Maybe 08 is the better way to go.

Afterall, it marks the 30th anniversary of the first album.

[Figs]

"I would like Van Halen fans to know how much I truly appreciate each and every one of you. "

fuck that, is there anyone shittier to their fans? yeah, like a battered housewife i will show up if he tours with roth (stop laughing!), but don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining.

"Some of the issues surrounding the 2007 Van Halen tour are within my ability to change and some are not. As far as my rehab is concerned, it is within my ability to change and change for the better."

what are those "some are not" issues i wonder? something like dave wanting as much money as ed for the tour?

[Maggi]

Originally posted by Plexi Head
This place is all the better for having you post.

Onya Maggi

Thanx a lot Plexi Head ... feels good to get some apreciation.



Hugs !
Maggi

[indeedido]

Originally posted by fryingdutchman
Seriously...a sound plan would be:

1. Dry Ed out
2. Roll out a new album
3. Tour in support of said new album later this year or in '08.

Ditto.

[Maggi]

I just found an excellent commentary on the situation:

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/08/dlr-not-in-the-building/

DLR Not In The Building

Roth not allowed to perform at gala honoring the band

This business went in the crapper when the executives started believing they were bigger than the acts, that the audience was interested in THEM, not the performers.

And why be interested in the acts, they were just tools of the machine. Picked on their looks, singing the songs of hacks, the music lost its soul, its religion, its sense of theatre, its VAUDEVILLE HISTORY!

Van Halen was no James Cameron production, no slick artifice, it was just four guys from Pasadena working their way up from beer parties to the TOP, testing limits, getting better every step of the way.

We all agree Eddie Van Halen is a genius, but without David Lee Roth Van Halen never would have broken through. Sammy may have a better voice, I love "Best Of Both Worlds", but without DLR there IS NO Van Halen, no notice. A band without a frontman is…the NICE?

You need a singer, someone who can enrapture the audience, someone who can make the audience pay attention. That person in Van Halen’s case was David Lee Roth. Better David Lee Roth with ANYBODY behind him than ANYBODY in Velvet Revolver or Audioslave (is there a difference, aren’t both made up of has-beens who can’t work on their own?)

Stunningly, David Lee Roth can still work on his own. Granted, to an ever-dwindling audience. But people still want to be touched. Want to remember when they were in high school, and DIDN’T GIVE A FUCK! Van Halen was music for people enmeshed in the system who wanted a WAY OUT! That’s what music used to provide. Back when it was a culture of notes, not pricks with $5,000 suits and multiple assistants.

This is the last nail in the coffin for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is the final joke. When you don’t even let the INDUCTEES perform.

Why not? Because it’s on TELEVISION? Doesn’t that prove the point? That when you start worrying about the audience rather than the music you’ve lost the thread?

Back when Van Halen reigned, the ultimate goal was to get backstage. To hang with the band, whether male or female. It not only made your night, but maybe your life. To get that close. To the talented who played by their own rules.

That’s what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was. A private party. That the public LONGED to attend. Back when there was no question the inductees were legends.

An edited show for VH1 was bad enough. A live broadcast? Why? Is this any different from the Paris Hilton sex tape? A staged event, distributed for publicity?

The R&RHOF needs cash. It needs to perpetuate itself. When it’s the MUSIC that’s important, that will outlive this lame organization run by men and women who never had the adoration of tens of thousands of fans, who never held them in the palm of their hands, who never knew the POWER of being a star.

You can be rich, but that doesn’t make you a star.

And the biggest star amongst this year’s inductees has now been refused the right to perform at his own party. Isn’t that like not allowing the President to attend his own inauguration?

Let every table at the Waldorf-Astoria be adorned with a bowl of brown M&M’s. And when it comes time for Van Halen to be inducted, let everybody THROW THEM AT THE DAIS!

That’s the rock and roll spirit. Throwing out decorum, knowing that a big star plays by his OWN RULES!

If only the pricks who made this decision had one iota of David Lee Roth’s star power. If only they realized they’re what’s killing not only the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the record business too.

If Michael Stipe had any balls he’d refuse to attend unless DLR could come and perform too. What, Paul Shaffer gets to play all these years but David Lee Roth CAN’T?

I very much agree with him, except for the M&Ms part, which I'd replace with rotten eggs and foul tomatoes



Cheers,
Maggi

[Roth & Roll]

Originally posted by halenfan25
You couldn't own a 2 dollar whore.

Not true; I wore out your mother like an old pair of Nike's.
At least I got her to swallow...your dada should have done the same thing....

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by halenfan25
...

I express my dislike for the band and it helps me get over them and move on.

Is that why you insulted white women too? Saying that we're sluts? Trying to get over one, huh? Poor little boy.

Best thing she ever did was leave your stupid ass.

[Roth & Roll]

Originally posted by diamondsgirl
Is that why you insulted white women too? Saying that we're sluts? Trying to get over one, huh? Poor little boy.

Best thing she ever did was leave your stupid ass.

He's just a bitter little boy who got dumped by every white chick in his trailer park community, and he's bitter that his dada was an alcoholic.
Then again, with a son like that, I would be an alcoholic too.

[bluemustard]

See...Eddie got his laptop and wrote a sweet letter!!




Soon he will make you all not worthy!

[glensfallspaul]

Ed is indisposed and working toward a better future here," Roth said. "If Ed ever dries up, this is going to be a stadium act, man

DLR says "if," not "when"...makes me wonder what he's witnessed since he was bhrought back into the band.

[PlexiBrown]

DLR says "if," not "when"...makes me wonder what he's witnessed since he was bhrought back into the band.

Easy.....he witnessed Ed not being able to play the CVH material anymore without screwing every song up or getting through a day without making an ass of himself and then he said to Ed, "there is no way we can tour or even prepare for a tour unless you dry out first".

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by PlexiBrown
Easy.....he witnessed Ed not being able to play the CVH material anymore without screwing every song up or getting through a day without making an ass of himself and then he said to Ed, "there is no way we can tour or even prepare for a tour unless you dry out first".

Yes, but things seemed to be going pretty well during December (Dave's first meeting with them) and then even when Dave jammed with them (January).

It was all looking very good.

However, Ed's problems most likely creeped up on him and maybe a subsequent rehearsal was a disaster because of it.

[GreenBayLA]

Originally posted by GreenBayLA
So it's the Eddie show and he ain't up to it. Real question: Is Eddie up to rehab?

Well I called this one right... Hope it clears up all the rumors/speculation out there that DLR was the problem -at least this go round.
Best wishes Eddie.